newb cpu jumper settings question

[oMarKs]

this may be long winded but: i have a mother board with a 133/266mhz bus and an athlon 1700 which is currently running at 1473. you can see in the picture the jumper combinations and what its like at the moment. what i think at the moment is that all the jumpers are 'on' so that 133*11 would give 1463. basically what im wondering is could i change the jumpers so its x12.5 to give a higher cpu speed?

i dont know about this stuff (as you can probably tell) so bare with me

 

[gMANiac]

Originally posted by oMarKs
you can see in the picture the jumper combinations...

What picture? Also what Mobo namebrand/model? Not that I can help...just important info.

 

[oMarKs]

sorry im a complete idiot, forgot to add the picture ill attach it to this

and the motherboard is a jetway v266b

 

[Squilly]

just turn the second and third jumpers off.

 

[oMarKs]

that is what i thought, but when i bought it they siad that it was already set up (with cpu installed) so i wonder why they didnt set the jumpers to maximize cpu speed

 

[oMarKs]

ive just read that athlon 1700's are meant to run at 1470mhz, so i think i'll leave the jumper settings after all

 

[Xtasy0]

Originally posted by oMarKs
ive just read that athlon 1700's are meant to run at 1470mhz, so i think i'll leave the jumper settings after all

good idea, the athlon xp's use a rating system, a 1700 doesnt run at 1700 but it would be equivelant to an athlon (old athlon, not athlon xp) 1700Mhz cpu performance wise, or at least thats what amd tells us.

 

[gMANiac]

Oh...LOL. I thought you were trying to OC, oMarKs. Yeah, a 1700+ runs at 1.4 Ghz. The 1700+, actually, means that is the Pentium Ghz CPU which it's meant to compete with. It's part of AMD's "it's not the Ghz that counts, but the instructions per clock cycle" spin.

 

[Doobz]

and hey, it works


2800s compete very favorably with 2.8 GHz P4s

 

[Delicious Bass]

And they are much cheaper